He turns slaughter into a punchline; he’s a homicidal comedian with an audience of one himself.
Either way,The Prestigewants to fool your senses by ripping a hole in reality.
It does so with a busy, at times brutal, single-mindedness.
Melinda Sue Gordon/Warner Bros.; Everett Collection; Stephen Vaughan/Warner Bros.
It works, though at the expense of giving the audience much room to breathe."
It’s a rolling explosion of images as hypnotizing and sharply angled as any in a drawing by M.C.
Escher or a state-of-the-biz video game; the backwards splicing of Nolan’s ownMementolooks rudimentary by comparison.
Stephen Vaughan/Warner Bros.
The waterworks are not contagious.
But all we feel is the tugging.
Joe McGovern(read more)
Related content:
Marc Hom for EW
